Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much so that he is not aware of it; enhanced Executive power to the point of reducing Congress to innocuity; and enabled the central government to bribe the states, once independent units, into subservience. No kingship in the history of the world ever exercised more power than our Presidency, or had more of the people's wealth at its disposal.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids.

Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.